The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-08
baseball Notes.

Mullane wants 70 play third base next season
Crothers. of Eau Claire, is the top picture of
the Northern League.
At Union City, yesterday, the Unions defeat
ed the Dayton club, 20 to ii.
Firle, of Duluth, has the first rank as first
baseman, with a percentage OF l,OOO.
Sowders, of the Northwes League, out OF
133 times at the bat, made 81 hits.
At Charlottesville, yesterday, the Reds de-
feated the Champaign Clippers, to 3.
Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington Indianspo-
lis and Detroit favor the percentage plan.
Wise, Boston's leading batter. has played in
twenty games this season where he did not make
hit. In five games he made ior- hits to
game.
Corkhill has been engaged to play with the
Athletics in their series with the PhiadelDhias
for the local championship Of the Quaker City
this fall.
The trophy offered to the Northwestern
League, to be contested for by the teams of the
League, and to become the property Of the one
winning the championship for three successive
seasons, is made of silver, stands two feet high,
and is an elegant piece Of workmanship.
Deacon White says it is a useless expenditure
of money to employ three or four pitchers. One
man can, II necessary. pitch week in and week
out, unless he becomes injured, and if the sys-
TEN of maintaining several batteries were abol-
ished the result would be equally beneficial
from every standpoint
Several clubs were after Kelly to play on the
Pacific next fall and winter. and the
nouncement has been made that he would play
in several teams. The Chicagos Detroits. ST.
Louis Browns and New Yorks were after him,
and it was only Monday mor9ing that he decided
to 60 with the New Yorks
Detroit now leads in team batting with a per-
centage of 343 New York 339 Philadelphia 335,
Chicago 1926. Boston 1885, Allegheny .313. In
dianapoiis .278. Washington .266 In team field
ing Detroit also leads with percentage of 1923,
New York .9l6. Allegheny .9l4. Philadelphia
.9l2. Chicago 909. Washington .906, 1ndanapo-
lis 1903, and Boston 1857.
The captain and center fielder of the Aurora
ND Base ball Club, the News. of that place.
says, is q boy both of whose legs off at the
thighs. He has a boy to run bases for him. and
he does his center fielding in invalid's chair.
and catches a good many flies. When he wants
to 90 wadine in the river he rolls up his sleeves
and walks into the water on his hands.
Manager Mason, of the Athletics says IA
few years ago had plenty of pitchers, but
to-day they are getting rarer, and good
very scarce article The East has been
secured for good men. and it is impossibility
to find any in that section. Years ago every
young player wanted TO be a pitcher. but today
things are different These well-fouuded stories
of men lasting onlv few years in the box keen
the rising material from becoming pitchers. I
have often asked Youngsters why it IS that they
don't become pitchers, instead of catchers
felders, and the universal answer has been that
pitchers don't last long. Every pitcher in the
country knows that his days numbered. and
they generally do their work accordingly"
Romeo Johnson, the justly celebrated Jonah
of the Indianapolis baseball club, arrived at
home yesterday noon having been ignominious-
ly fired" by the club at Pitlsburg the day be-
fore. He slipped out of the depot between the
baggage trucks, and came in a close carriage up
Tennessee street and through alleys to his rooms
on North Illinois street, whence he sent out two
or three of his friends feel the public pulse
and ascertain the feeling of the masses towards
him before venturing on the streets alone. The
popular verdict that he in hard luck
enough without having extreme penalties visit
ed on him. and he will therefore be tolerated,
though be can never hope to regain the standing
he had in certain circles before he took the field
as a professional mascot with tho ball club
and among its members johnson was referred
to as THE Blight" Concerning his case, there
can be but conclusion, and that is that
m ascot born IN Centreville - a Hoodoo. Now
that the club is out from under his influence, it
may be fairly expected to win a game.